11:47 PM,
Dec. 26, 2013

Steven Brigham, founder of the homeless encampment in Lakewood.

Written by

Margaret F. Bonafide
| @mfbonafide

A homeless camp founder here said actions taken by the town to make life difficult at the camp violated his civil rights.

But the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said otherwise in a decision handed down Nov. 20.

Claims of discrimination by Minister Steven Brigham, of the Lakewood Outreach Ministries and founder of the Tent City encampment off Cedar Bridge Avenue, are unfounded, the department wrote in a letter to the township ...